finger drumming
Impatient hand tapping
Finger drumming is tapping your fingers rhythmically on a surface, either idly while waiting or thinking, or as a musical technique.
In music production, finger drumming specifically means playing drum patterns on pad controllers or electronic surfaces: She learned finger drumming to make beats on her MPC.
The idle version often signals impatience or boredom.
- tappingRepeated light striking
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- tabletopHorizontal furniture surface
- beatsPulses or defeats
- restlessUnable to be still
impatient · fidgeting · idle hands · percussion · nervous · waiting · waiting room · boredom · killing time · lost in thought · cadence · knuckles · desk · tempo · ratatat · habit · anxious · nervous habit
- body languagegestures, facial expressions, hand gestures, posture, nodding
- boredomboredom, ennui, tedium, monotony, dullness
- fidgetingfidgeting, fidget, tapping, fiddle, twiddle
- awkward body languagelimp handshake, forced smile, tight smile, nervous laugh
- drumsbongo, tambourine, snare, djembe, conga
- frustration gesturesfacepalm, eye roll, heavy sigh, fist clench, head shake